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Poster: | summerseve | Date: | Jun 26, 2004 11:16pm |
Forum: | movie_of_the_week | Subject: | Re: MOVIE OF THE WEEK! 06/25/04!! |
No folks, it's not like a television, showing you pictures from miles away, it's a screen that actually displays real data, right from the computer itself, as it's happening! Wow!
Someone once told me that most technological advances these days come from two places: the military and the porno industry...
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Poster: | Steve Nordby | Date: | Jun 27, 2004 6:30am |
Forum: | movie_of_the_week | Subject: | Re: MOVIE OF THE WEEK! 06/25/04!! |
It is also interesting to note that SAGE was obsolete soon after it was deployed. It was designed to catch relatively slow moving bombers because the US felt the Soviets weren't capable of building an ICBM. So what were they looking at on their display scopes?
http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~snordby/displayscope.jpg
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Poster: | summerseve | Date: | Jun 27, 2004 8:46am |
Forum: | movie_of_the_week | Subject: | Re: MOVIE OF THE WEEK! 06/25/04!! |
"It wasn't my fault Captain, it just popped up on my display scope..."